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These will be sufficient specimens of the causes of disagreement 

 that divide the Jainas into two leading branches, whose mutual animosity 

 is, as usual, of an intensity, very disproportionate to the sources from 

 whence it springs. 



Besides these two great divisions, several minor sects are particula- 

 rised as existing amongst the Jains. They appear, however, to be of no 

 importance, as it has been found impossible to obtain any satisfactory 

 account of the heresies they have adopted, or of their origin and present 

 condition. Schism was contemporary even with Mahavira, and his son-in- 

 law, JamXli, founded a dissentient order. His follower, Gosala, was also 

 the institutor of a sect, and an impostor into the bargain, pretending to be 

 the twenty-fourth Tirthankara. Bajrabanda, the pupil of a very celebrat- 

 ed Digambara teacher, Kunda Kund Acharya, founded the Drdvir sect, 

 according to some in the fifth, and to the others, in the seventh century. 

 VajraswAmi instituted the Mahdnisitha sect, and Jinendra S#ri founded 

 the Lampaka sect, by which images were discarded. The sects now most 

 often heard of, although little known, are the Mula Sanghis, who use 

 brushes of peacock's feathers, wear red garments, and receive alms in 

 their hands : the Kdshta Sanghis, who make their images of wood and 

 employ brushes of the tail of the Yak : the Tera Panthis and Bis Panthis, 

 or followers of ten and of twenty, said sometimes to refer to the number 

 of objects which are most essential to salvation, and at others, explained 

 by a legend of the foundation of the heresy by a number of persons, such 

 as the denomination implies. Both these are said to deny the supremacy 

 of a Guru, to dispense with the ministration of a Brahman, and to present 

 no perfumes, flowers, nor fruits to the images of the Tirthankaras* The 



* The Bis Panthis are said to be, in fact, the orthodox Digambaras, of whom the Tera Panthis 

 are a dissenting branch. 



